Re: Personal Oracle Patch for XP

"que90nek" <mylescd_at_advantexmail.net> wrote in message news:102tvvdfb87gp01_at_corp.supernews.com...
> No, I can not blame them for that. But I can blame them for putting out
> products that "work" with a particular operating system EXCEPT that
> sometimes it might not work because you need to pay money to get the the
key
> to making it REALLY "work."

Well, I don't think it's quite like that really. Take the Enterprise Edition, for example: released as 9.2.0..., it installs onto Windows just fine. But there are bugs, and Oracle releases patches to fix those. The product "works" as released, but works rather better and more reliably with the patch. For testing and evaluation purposes, the non-patched initial release is probably all you would need to determine that this is a suitable platform for further work. At least, that's probably going to be Oracle's view of things. And it seems perfectly reasonable to me.

We've had discussions on the trial license on this group before (search at google). I seem to recall the general consensus being that it is not fine to develop your entire application on the trial download. If you develop with the intent to sell, that's commercial use, and you need to pay.

Regards
HJR Received on Sun Feb 15 2004 - 00:04:04 CST